Refs have too much power to influence the game... In any sport... American Football is probably the worst, slightly ahead of Basketball.

Isn’t the NBA kind of a laughing stock anyway? The amount of blatant missed calls, dives, the lack of effort during the regular season/halfway through the playoffs. The sport isn’t enjoyable until the semifinals of the playoffs. I think sport in general needs more transparency across the board

I don't think Refs should be in press conferences after every game, but after a series sure.

They definitely owe the public and the players a post season debrief going over the biggest controversies of the year for sure.

Last thing we need is more divas in the NBA and giving the refs the spotlight is a way to turn the entirety of the sport into a laughing stock.

Basketball is a unique sport, it's unique in the sense that if someone entered the sport that absolutely dominated everyone, the sport would die. And I mean absolutely dominate, not like the bs "domination" that gets thrown around these days when one guy makes 70% from behind the line.

That’s my thought too.

I have a work friend who is an NCAA football and lax official. He and I talk about my umpiring days and how much I did enjoy it. He also knows I was a college football player. He’s trying to get me hooked up to do at least HS football and then maybe NCAA.

They need young people. I’m not “young” but I’m younger than most of the folks doing it now and it’s a fun side gig. I also announce local sports for extra cash, so this wouldn’t be too different.

Small potatoes. Doncic pulled a 35k fine for his cash gesture.

The only dispute I have is these refs may leave, but there will be plenty of refs willing to step up for NBA money and prestige. You sound like a good one.

Money well spent the way i see it i would eat that cost everyday to publicly shame bad officiating 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

The players who hate them are the guys who get away with more bullshit with other crews.

I’m so tired after work I thought this was about the talk show host

talks like he has a cold all the time

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It’s set up purposely to allow for them all to be bribed, blackmailed, and/or threatened to influence the games one way or another.

100% this.

I know it sucks, and “no one will want to be a ref” but they need to be held accountable somehow. I was a little league umpire for most of HS and a few years in college. Did everything but HS ball. I never had a call I couldn’t defend. Even if the defense was “it was quick, and that’s how I saw it in the moment.” You gotta be held accountable or else there’s no reason to have any standards of quality. I would talk to coaches and parents between innings. If they got nasty, I’d walk away, but most of the time, they wanted to know why a call was made. As long as I told them what I saw, they were happy.

Refs should be criticized for their performances. Coaches and players should be able to talk about that part of the game because officiating can play a role in the outcome. Refs are a protected species and coaches/players are fined all the time when they criticize a reffing crew. A ref should be in press conferences as well after games. They should get a voice to defend decisions as well and be asked about times in the game.

My brain read this a Montel Williams and I was confused.

I do agree the votes would be biased but you'd think that the biases would cancel out. So if CP3 hates one ref and rates him poorly, the perceived bias against CP3 should benefit someone else who then likes that ref.

personally, I'd just like to ditch Scott Foster. That fuck was 100% involved in the Tim Donaghy shit and it is outrageous that he is still a ref

My bad in my mind I added balance to your suggestion like players vote then they check the tape with the rules of the game which will have a higher impact on new refs. Now that I reread it that’s fucking stupid the players rate the officials. It’s not going to be based on fairness the player vote would be in how the official refed their game. CP3 is like 0- a million when foster refs but when they check the tapes the calls comeback overwhelming correct. There’s more no calls than anything. I’m all for descending technicals and using technology to help ref, but like coach SVG said the verbal abuse is ridiculous.

The refs the players all hate are old guard… Scott Foster, Ben Taylor, etc

I disagree... the problem IS the old blood Refs who think they are bigger than the game. It would also incentivize even calling of games (as each players vote is equal) and more respect in regard to calling Technical fouls.

New refs would suffer the most so the old ones stay. The loss of refs is what has been a huge deal in the poor ref performance.

more reasonable would be giving the players an opportunity to rate the officials at the end of each season and bottom 10% are out of the league

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League should give the players each one "players challenge" per game.

And representatives of the NBPA (players association) would grant or deny the challenge.

If the challenge is successful they retain their challenge, but if not they get a assessed a technical foul.

I have a feeling players would get a lot of technicals.

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